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1) Simple Exercise to Know Thyself: Activity 1: Raise your hand and ask yourself the question: Am I the hand? What is the answer you get? Are you the hand or are you the observer, witness, knower, of the hand, which is just another ‘object’ like the table, chair, etc.? It will be easy for…

The biologics movement mostly started with hyaluronic acid (HA) in 1997. This natural lubricant of joints and tissues was created from chicken coxcombs. Surgeons started patients off with injections once a week for five weeks until a more crosslinked or dense version became available in the US (DUROLANE) in 2018 as a single shot. The…

Forty-six does not arrive with ceremony. It slips in quietly, like a meeting that could have been an email. But let me be honest: on the day itself, there was nothing quiet about it. This piece is being written two days later in Goa, with the kind of mature reflection that only distance and lager…

Time has quietly become a luxury. And we don’t even question it anymore. We just accept it, negotiate with it, stretch it, complain about it. Kumari didi, my helping hand, often says, “Didi, do minute toh baitho.” And I just smile. Even those two minutes feel like something I have to earn. Or worse, postpone….

Merely because the People’s Republic of China has been peripheral to the conflict in the Gulf should not be taken to mean that it does not have the capacity to get involved. Just as the attack on Iran was a war of choice for Washington, so too has Beijing chosen to remain aloof. The Chinese…

Mind the gap: Under US pressure, India has gradually distanced itself from Iran. But it should go back to its traditional role as a bridge between rival blocs Isolating its adversaries has always been a preferred US tactic. But historically, India opposed this strategy. Most recently, it ensured that Moscow wasn’t shut out of the world…

By Sonal Srivastava While on a state visit to India in February, France’s President Emmanuel Macron, the youngest president in the country’s history, was seen jogging in navy-blue shorts and a T-shirt on a dusty sidewalk in Mumbai. In a gazillion videos on social media that captured the health-conscious president keeping up with his fitness…

Smart use of coal can shield India from foreign crises When the US blocked oil supplies to Cuba last month, a 56-year-old mechanic named Juan Carlos Pino found a clever solution. He changed his old 1980 Fiat car so it could run on charcoal. He didn’t use a steam engine. Instead, he built a simple…

Recently, Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi revealed something extraordinary about Operation Sindoor, a revelation that cut through the noise of hyper-partisan commentary and reminded India what its military truly stands for. Speaking at the Ran Samvad 2026 forum in Bengaluru and separately on the podcast Before I Became Me, the Army Chief disclosed that during the…

Mr. Nitish Kumar has resigned from his membership of the Bihar Legislative Council upon his election to the Rajya Sabha but has not yet relinquished his post of Chief Minister. Some ministers in the Bihar state government contend that he can continue as Chief Minister for a period of six months, pursuant to Article 164(4)…